You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.

Be loving and kind to everyone and every one will be loving and kind to you.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.